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Movable Type: Is there a way to display revision number?

Hi, Is there any way to display how many revision has made to a entry? I don't see this template tag in the tag reference. I know there is current_revision API tag, but how do I display this in template? ...

Movable Type: Strange caching (I am super MT noob)

Hi all So, I have been asked to remove a menu item on a website running Movable Type. "No problem", I thought. So I log in, and try to figure out WHERE those damn templates can be edited. I finally find something that looks real, edit it, update the page and NOTHING HAPPENED. I then log in to the FTP and discovers, that ALL pages exam...

encode url not encoding

Hi all. I am working in a template in Moveable Type and would like to do the following: <a href="http://twitter.com/share?url=&lt;$mt:EntryPermalink encode_url="1" $>">Twitter</a> It all works but I'm worried that the current link or at some point even if I use a title mt tag that it might not be right for the browser address bar. I ...

Movable Type: How to replace " with &quot;

Hi, I am trying to replace only " with &quot; within EntryBody I tried <mt:entrybody replace=""","&quot;"> but this seems to not work. Version is MT5.02 and I don't want to use <mt:entrybody encode_html="1"> What I am trying to do is import all entires using CSV(comma separated) format(clients request) and " (quotation mark) inside E...

Only display one paragraph of text

You can set what the Facebook Share preview says. I would like it to be the first paragraph of my movable type entry. The people who make entries sometimes use <p> tags or they use the rich editor which puts in two <br /><br /> tags to separate paragraphs. Is there a way I can have movable type detect when the first paragraph e...

Database connection error with Postgres & Movable Type

I'm trying to set up MovableType 4.34 using a Postgres database, and I'm getting the following (unhelpful) error message: Connection error: authentication method 7 not supported The database server doesn't support SSL connections, so I suspect that's to blame -- but I can't be sure (what is "authentication method 7" ?), and at any rat...

How to use php code in a template in MovableType 5?

How do I embed/execute php code in a MovableType 5 template? ...